vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-3e2c9b63-223c-4575-af5c-816acb14e445 (CVE-2018-8798): rdesktop - critical - Remote Code Execution

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Feb 22, 2019

Added

Feb 23, 2019

Modified

Jun 15, 2026

Description

rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in function rdpsnd_process_ping() that results in an information leak.

freebsd-upgrade-package-rdesktop

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